Chapter 198: More Friend’s Worries

Lily POV

Word travels fast in a school like Goldencrest, especially if it pertains to a certain royal member. The disappearance of the princess was on everyone’s lips as she hustled to the school’s gates. However, Lily didn’t really care about the princess given the situation.

While almost everybody was focused on the princess, they had forgotten that another person had disappeared alongside her.

“Wait up Lily!” She heard Aubrey call from behind her.

“I can’t! The more time I waste the more likely it will be something happens to him,” she yells back.

“You’re really that worried for him? You know he can handle himself right?” Aubrey called out again.

“It doesn’t matter if he can. It only matters that I should be trying to find him because he is our friend!”

Aubrey didn’t have a response to that. Lily knew that out of everyone Aubrey might have cared about Julius the most. Other than her of course.

“By the time you get in contact with your family and explain the situation, it might be too late,” Derek called out calmly.

It wasn’t just Aubrey who was following her. Edgar, Kyle, and Derek had all come along as well.

“I realized that. That’s why I am not going to my family,” she told him.

“Then who?”

“There’s someone who is quite close by who is very well suited to a problem like this.”

Lily had already messaged Alice and tried to explain the situation. She didn’t respond but Lily knew she would be waiting outside for her.

The moment she crossed the barriers set up around the school gates she saw Alice appear out of thin air. The beautiful brown haired woman was casually sipping on some sort of drink.

However, Lily knew that casualness was just an act. Alice’s aura showed that she was ready to act whenever she needed to.

“Explain what happened,” Alice said gently, but there was no mistaking the commanding air as she spoke to Lily.

Lily did her best to give as detailed of an explanation as she was able to, but the truth of the matter was that she didn’t know enough to give a perfect picture. As she was explaining the rest of her friends had arrived and were looking at Alice with curious looks.

However, they maintained a respectful distance and kept their questions to themselves. They would be able to tell that whoever Alice was, she wasn’t just some regular person.

“So that was what happened,” Alice said thoughtfully.

“What? You knew something happened, Alice?” Lily asked.

“I couldn’t sense him anymore. While there could have been several reasons for that. I was hoping it was because he figured out how to avoid spatial detection. This reason is a bit more tricky,” Alice admitted with a frown.

“But there’s still a way to find him, right?”

“I would need access to the teleportation circle to determine where it sent him, but you can already see the problem with that right?”

She frowned heavily. Indeed she saw the problem with that. The rift that had taken him was a Tier 2 rift. A rift of that quality would not be able to hold someone like Alice for more than several minutes before the rift collapsed.

Even someone as skilled as Alice in spatial magic couldn’t change that.

Finally, it seemed that Aubrey’s patience had run thin. “So what? You can’t do anything to help him?”

Alice slowly turned to look at Aubrey. “Watch how you speak to me young Crysalia. Just because I know your mother doesn’t mean you can speak to me however you wish,” she softly warned the young woman.

Even though she didn’t raise her voice or pressure them with her aura, every single one of them felt like the walls surrounding them tightly squeezing them.

“She didn’t mean any disrespect,” Lily quickly defended her best friend. “She is just as concerned about Julius as any of us.”

That suffocating feeling slowly ebbed away, but there was an undeniable tension now. “Of course, it’s understandable,” Alice said.

Sometimes Lily envied Julius and his ability to ignore tier disparity like he did with Alice and Dante. He was completely unaware of certain social cues and lacked basic common sense a lot of the time, but if there was anything that was impressive about him, it was his ability to be completely at ease in front of powerful people such as Alice. He would even go as far as to joke or tease Alice, something even Alice’s own family members would balk at.

With that being said, Lily knew that Alice secretly respected that about Julius, which was why the woman didn’t wipe the boy from existence even though he acted so casually with her.

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Lily wasn’t able to do the same. She was really good at hiding it and pretending it never bothered her, but it wasn’t the same. She knew that it was similar with Derek and Kyle as well. They had all been trained and been in the presence of enough Tier 5 and Tier 6 individuals that they were sort of used to it. But that didn’t mean they were comfortable being around them.

The only person she felt that way with was her grandfather.

Aubrey was a different story, Lily just believed that the other girl was too dumb and rash to care about things like that. Perhaps, that was her mother’s influence on her.

Before Lily could ask Alice another question, Derek interjected with a polite bow. “Pardon the interruption, Lady Alice. But what does that mean for Julius?”

Alice gave Derek her attention. “You’re Zenith’s boy, right?”

“Yes, ma’am.”

“I’m surprised you’re showing this much concern for a boy like Julius,” Alice said with a chuckle.

Derek’s polite smile on his face remained, but there was now an edge that hadn’t been there before. “What is that supposed to mean?”

“Well, your father certainly wouldn’t believe in showing so much care for someone without much status.”

“I’m not my father,” Derek said testily.